March volunteer night: T-shirt party!

Did you know that the first Saturday of every month is Vegan T-Shirt Day? Well, for March’s volunteer night on Wednesday, we all gathered at the Oakridge Library for a t-shirt decorating party! Take a look at some of the brilliant designs our volunteers came up with: April’s volunteer night is on Wednesday the 10th

This is our second Volunteer Spotlight. Our featured volunteer is Kasun Somaratne, who is amazingly devoted and hardworking and has been helping Liberation BC since 2010. He is always willing to lend a hand and has been a valuable member of our volunteer crew from his very first day. Kasun is also a long-time volunteer

(This guest post was written by Ava Hickson of the Vancouver Animal Defense League. Thanks, Ava!) What do you do when millions of sharks are under attack from money-hungry poachers, corrupt governments and an unregulated international trade? Stand up, fight back! And that is what Vancouver Animal Defense League is doing to save sharks! It

A big thank you to all the people who came out to the 3G Vegetarian Restaurant fundraiser on the 25th to nosh on scrumptious vegan Chinese Food and to raise money for Liberation BC. Thanks to you and the generosity of the good people at 3G, $500 was raised to fund our advocacy work! As

Our third Animal Advocacy Camp is coming up on one month, on February 23rd and 24th, at the UBC Student Union Ballroom. It’s the best unconference around and absolutely invaluable for any animal activist. (You can learn about past camps here.) So, what’s an unconference? Well, at Animal Advocacy Camp, you get to set the

One of our favourite restaurants in Vancouver is 3G Vegetarian, so you can imagine our delight when they suggested a benefit to help fund our advocacy work. How exciting! Please join us at 3G for dinner this Friday, January 25th, between 4:30 and 9:00 pm. 3G will be donating 30% of all dinner proceeds (over

Another month, another night with the best volunteers in all of BC! For January’s volunteer night, we stamped literally thousands of Vegan Outreach leaflets, cut up sticker sheets, and organized pins. Our amazing team of 13 whooshed through these tasks at lightning-fast rate. As always, we had lots of interesting conversations, too: from advocacy tactics

Liberation BC is very lucky to have a wonderful bunch of compassionate, devoted and eager volunteers, so we’ve decided to start interviewing them on our blog! This is our first edition of “Volunteer Spotlight”, and our featured volunteer is Kim Ward. Kim started volunteering with Liberation BC in February 2012, where she proved herself to

Our friends at Nice Shoes are organizing a vegan food drive for our local food bank! You can drop off your non-perishable vegan food at their store, located at 3568 Fraser Avenue, all through December. Their hours are 11 AM to 6 PM on weekdays and 12 to 5 PM on Sunday. Unsure of

Thanks to all the Liberation BC Christmas elves who came out to the Santa Claus Parade to speak out for turkeys! Sophie and I, along with volunteers Richa, Marv, Joanne, Sandra, and one super tall gentleman whose name we managed to miss (please let us know if it was you!) spent two hours spreading Christmas